The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were a Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate. Arguably, they are best thought of as forerunners of the Quakers, with whom many of them subsequently merged. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day to be corrupt, and preferred to wait for God's revelation.

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Jan 6, 2011 ... Yale University Press. ... Cardinal Pole's Legatine Synod of 1555 stressed the
importance of preaching and ordered a book of homilies to be prepared. ... had
given a sermon justifying “the burning of Anabaptists and Arians.

'There is no church', Clapham has Legatine- Arian say, 'nor visible Christian in
the world as yet, seeing no miraculous aposties have yet been sent to baptise
people and call them into communion'. On Clapham's account these people ...

The views of Edward Wightman, the early Legatine- Arian or Seeker, are
somewhat fully given from the record of his trial on November 19-December 5,
1611, — a trial record as yet almost unnoticed in England. That he was not an
Anabaptist ...

... Seekers do not appear to have been of much influence before the period of the
Civil Wars and the Commonwealth. Then the Friends, or Quakers, undoubtedly
arose partly as the result of the continued dissemination of Legatine-Arian, ...

... the 1547 royal injunctions); and in 1556 Morwen was appointed to the legatine
visitation of the university charged by Pole with enforcing the Counter-
Reformation. ... His first book, The Fall of the Late Arian, was printed on 9
December.

By Ian Atherton, Keele University &David Como, Stanford UniversityEdward Wightman, the last person burned at the stake for heresy in England, in April 1612, has usually been dismissed, his anti-Trinitarian speculations seen as the product of a deranged mind. Close study of his surviving trial records, however, reveals that Wightman was a leading member of the godly clique in his home town of Burton-upon-Trent, and that he had very similar ideas to Bartholomew Legate, another anti-Trinitarian who was burned at the stake just a few weeks before him.

It will be clear that French Christianity was going to be quite different, largely because the culture that was baptized with Clovis was so very different from the 'civilized' Romano-Gallic culture which had preceded it. At one level, the Arian Goths in the south and in Iberia were more 'civilized', to the point that when Clovis announced his intention to liberate the Catholic Gauls from their oppression under the heretical Goths, those same Gauls preferred to fight with the Goths against the Franks.

As a "radical [Roman] traditionalist" I find it quite ironic that my first post has a distinctly ecumenical theme and perspective. I currently attend a Byzantine rite Catholic parish, specifically the Melkite church in Antioch, and went to my father confessor today to be absolved of my endless offences against the Lord.

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